Cooking Oil

Today's Stuff That Works

OIL CLEANER

One thing I can't be accused of is complaining about stuff without offering a solution. Sometimes it's controversial, like hanging every elected democrat, but always guaranteed effective.  Yesterday I noted Auguste Escoffier's admonition about cleaning the cooking oil, and quite by chance I found myself doing just that last evening, after frying breaded crab cakes, French fires, and a fried Snickers bar.  This method is quite fast, and very efficient.  I place an old permanent coffee filter inside a fine mesh strainer (which is used only to hold the coffee filter) and pour through this contraption the contents of my fryer (still warm, or hot).  The oil on the right is at least two months old, and has been used several times, including in the lawn mower.  That's the stuff that works. Stuff that I thought worked, but doesn't. I previously reported that Mighty Putty worked.  It does.  For up to two days.  Then whatever it was that you used it on falls off the wall and kills someone, and now you have a lawsuit on your hands.  Have I told Billy Mays to STFU and die lately?